Past Events

GAP XVII — Vancouver "Deformations and higher structures" The seventeenth edition of the annual GAP conference and summer school will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, from Monday May 16 to Friday May 20, 2022. Mini...

This workshop, which is aimed chiefly at graduate students, will bring together students, postdocs and faculty in mathematical biology in Western Canada. Invited speaker Dr. Jimmy Garnier will be giving an extended lecture on his work in eco...

This is the registration page for the Western Canada Math Biology Spring Workshop 2022. Registration for this event has closed. Health requirements: PIMS and the University of British Columbia will implement guidelines set by the Office of the...

Our world swirls with percentages, ratios, and graphs. These numbers are often presumed to be objective reflections of reality. But they are not. To measure a human-designed society requires human-designed measures, with all attendant foibles folded...

Tangent categories are a categorical generalization of the category of manifolds by having maps like the projection and the zero-section of the tangent bundle that fulfill certain relations. With a similar strategy, Cartesian differential categories...

Given any finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra a over \(\mathbb{C}\), the Yangian \(Y(a)\) is a certain unital associative \(\mathbb{C}\)-algebra. In particular, Yangians form a family of so-called quantum groups. The main property these algebras is...

The Riemann zeta function plays a central role in our understanding of the prime numbers. In this talk we will review some of its amazing properties as well as properties of other similar functions, the Dirichlet L-functions. We will then see how the...

PIMS- UBC is pleased to be hosting the inaugural PIMS celebration of Women in Mathematics on May 12! The event will be held in a hybrid format. To attend the event in person at UBC, go to Earth Sciences Building (ESB) - 2012. Details of the event are...

It is known that the category of affine Lagrangian relations over a field F, of integers modulo a prime p (with p > 2) is isomorphic to the category of stabilizer quantum circuits for p-dits. Furthermore, it is known that electrical circuits...

Advances in Cryo-electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) have for the past few years revolutionized our understanding of biological 3D structures, illustrated by the Nobel Prize of Chemistry awarded in 2017 for the discovery of the technique, and the explosive...